All Video articles – Page 4
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Pronunciation skills: Off the map sounds /ɔː/ /æ/ and /e/
How can you teach pronunciation without using any sounds? In this video, Adrian helps show us by using mime to introduce us to some ‘off the map’ sounds and demonstrates us how we can identify sounds in relations to their neighbours on the phonetic chart.
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Live from London: How well do you know each other?
This video lesson includes interviews with Londoners talking to their friends about how well they know each other.
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LessonLive from London: What Do You Love?
In this instalment of the Live from London series, Londoners talk about people and things they love.
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Live from London: Double identity
This video lesson includes interviews with Londoners talking about alternative lives.
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LessonLive from London: Friends
Set in Brixton, London, this video lesson includes authentic interviews with Londoners, talking about friends.
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Live from London: First impressions
Set in Brixton, London, this video lesson includes authentic interviews with Londoners, talking about first impressions.
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LessonLive from London: Christmas video special!
In this very special edition, people in Brixton talk about how they celebrate Christmas. Happy holidays!
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Compass: Lesson 3: Eating habits
The third lesson of this new series from award-winning author Lizzie Pinard.
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ArticleCompass: Lesson 2: Cultural interviews
The second lesson of this new series from award-winning author Lizzie Pinard.
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Pronunciation skills: The chart
ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill introduces us to the phonemic chart and why it’s important to familiarize ourselves with sounds when teaching or learning a language.
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Pronunciation skills: The muscle buttons and vowels /iː/ or /uː/
In these two videos, Adrian Underhill explains the physicality of pronunciation and the use of ‘muscle buttons’ to help us vocalize sounds such as vowels /i:/ and /u:/.
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Pronunciation skills: Accents and the L1 grip
Which accent should I teach with? This is a common question that Adrian Underhill answers in the video below as well as tackling the subject of the L1 grip and how to escape it!
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Tech Tools for Teachers: Video-sharing
Nik Peachey explores video-sharing and how we can use it to motivate language learning. Nik provides a comprehensive overview article on the use of video-sharing, including a list of tools to create activities around videos, such as ESLvideo, a downloadable lesson plan, a video screencast tutorial and a printable how-to guide.
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Tech Tools for Teachers: Social bookmarking
Nik Peachey explores social bookmarking and how we can use it to save bookmarks online to access them from any computer. Nik provides a comprehensive overview article on the use of social bookmarking, including a list of tools to collate web pages like scrible and Delicious, a downloadable lesson plan, a video screencast tutorial and a printable how-to guide.
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Tech Tools for Teachers: Social Questionnaires
Nik Peachey explores social questionnaires and how we can use them to create motivating classroom and homework tasks.
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Tech Tools for Teachers: Word Clouds
In the third instalment of his series, Nik Peachey looks at word clouds and how they can be used to help students develop their vocabulary, understanding of syntax and reading and speaking skills. Nik provides a comprehensive overview article on word clouds, a downloadable lesson plan, and a printable how-to guide.
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This restless Earth
Show your students how volcanoes are formed while teaching key subject vocabulary such as magma, lava and crater.
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River action
Show students how ox-bow lakes are formed while teaching them key subject vocabulary such as meander, erosion and alluvium.